Device for teaching young animals to drink.



M. H, MADSBN.

DEVICE FOR TEACHING YOUNG ANIMALS T0 DRINK.

APPLIOATION FILED 00T.14, 1912.

1,065,459, Patented June 24, 1913.

l V/TNESSES; INVENTOR.

M. @W M A TTORNEYJ i lo the corners of he tree cud PIT-ADS H. MADSEN, OF

KIMBALLTON, IOWA.

DEVICE FOR TEACHING YOUNG ANIMALS TO DRINK.

Application filed Getober 14, 1912.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 24, 1913. Serial No. 725,755.

To all w/wmit may GO7MI'IL.'

Be it known that I. Klaus H. Mauser: a citizen of the United States. residing at l liinhallton, in the county of Audubon and State of Iowa. have invented a certain new and useful Device for 'leaching Young Animals to Drink. of which the ollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a device for teaching young animals to drink of simple. durable and inexpensive construction.

A further object is to provide such a device made or" somewhat resilient material and designed to be fitted over the v.spper jaw and nose of a calf or the like and so constructed and arranged that when the animal suckson the device. milk or other liquid food will be readilydrawn into the month.

My invention consists in certain details, in the construction, arrangen'ient and combi-- nation of the various parts of the device. whereby the objects contemplated are attained, hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in the acconr pan lug; drawings, in which- 'ure 1 shows a side elevation of a calts head ivitl'i my improved device for teaching voungr animals to drink installed on the halts upper jaw and nose. F 2 shows a 'icrspective view of my imp)... ed device. Fig: :3 shows a vertical. transverse. sectional iew of the same.

In the accompanying drawings I have used the reference muncral 10 to indicate the head of a calf which is shown. for the purpose of illustrating the manner in which. my device for teaching young animals to drink itused. e

The device consists of a bottom plate 11 which is approximately that with rounded corners and has its side edges rolled over forming a head or rib 12 thereby producing a grooved strue'tureas clearly shown in Fig. The plate 11 is designed to it in the roof of the animals mouth with thebeads 12 resting against the roof of the -inoutl Formed on one end of the plate 11 an upwardlv curved portion 14 desi ned to receive the upper lip of the ani. l and haw ing at its upper Gil-(l an upwardly and rear .vardlv extendia portion The tree eat f the portion 15 in l 1 and 2 to fit over animal and is consioerahlv wider portion 1st. l

15 are depressions 16 designed to fit into the depressions behind the nostrils of the animal.

It will. be understood that my improved I device is made oi. somewhat resilient mate-- rial such as hard rubber or metal and the distance between the free end of the ...-ortion 15 and the head 12 is normallysomewhat short r than the distance from the roof of the mouth to the ridge of the nose so that it is nec ssary to spring the portion 15 Slightly away lrom the portion 11 in order to place the device in position on the nose of. the animal.

The device is so constructed and proporoned that when the plate 11 is received in the mouth with the beads 12 resting against the root of the mouth and the por lion 15$ placed over the nose. the device will firmly grip the nose of the animal. The portions .14 and 15 are curved upwardly and rearwardly in such a way that, when the de- 1 ice is installed in position the forward part of the portion 15 and the upper partof the portion 12 are in engagement with the nose of the animal while the lower part of the portion 1 1 and the forward part of the plate 11 will extend forwardly from the nose of the animal and be free from engagement with the upper lip as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

The advantages of my improved device are obvious. It is often very ditlicult to teach young :imals such as calves, to drink from a pail tlu' Elie. \Vith my improved device the can. or animals sucks the milk or other liquid through the space between the torwa rd portion thereof and the calfs upper lip, and through the groove between the ribs 12.

My device is of. simple and inexpensive construction. can be readily and thoroughly cleaned and is }'iractically everlasting. It can be made of various materials and with number of variations in the details of its constri'ietion without departing from the essential features of my invention as defined in the appended claims.

1 claim as my invention.

1. In a device of the class described comprising: e fiat plate having ribs at its edges. thereby rorrning' a groove. designed to rest .1. the roof of the mouth of the animal,

1 portion and designed to lit the ridge of e nose of the animal.

f. 1 vice of the class described comprising a flat plate with raised edges designed to rest against the roof of the mouth 0f the animal, a portion curved upwardly and a portion curved rearwardly and u wardly from said first portion and designed to fit the ridge of the nose of the animal, said device being so constructed that the lower'forward portion thereofiextends forwardly leavfing a space between the same and the up er lip of the animal.

3. In a (i v prising a plate with its edges rolled at its sides to form a grooved structure designed evice of the class described comto rest against the roof of the mouth of the animal, a portion curved upwardly and a portion curved rearwardly and upwardly from said first portion and designed tofitthe ridge of the nose of the animal, said last named portion being providedwith depreson each side of ll'S upper end. Des Homes, Iowa, September 21, 1912.

MADS H. MADSEN'.

\Vitne sses HARALD HARKSON, HANS MADSEN. 

